Tata Motors Limited : The Founder, Headquarter, Products And Other Things You Need To Know

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November 19, 2021

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Tata Motors Limited

Founded

1945; 76 years ago

Founder

J. R. D. Tata

Headquarters

Mumbai, Maharashtra, India

Area served

Worldwide

Key people

Natarajan Chandrasekaran (Chairman)

Products

Automobiles

Luxury vehicles

Commercial vehicles

Automotive parts

Pickup trucks

SUVs

Production output

Increase 961,463 (2021)

Services

Automotive finance

Vehicle leasing

Vehicle service

Number of employees

78,906 (2021)

Parent

Tata Group

Divisions

Tata Motors Cars

Subsidiaries

Tata Daewoo

Jaguar Land Rover

Tata Technologies

Tata Hispano

Tata Hitachi Construction Machinery

Tata Motors Limited is a leading USD 34 billion Indian multinational automotive manufacturing company with a portfolio that covers a wide range of cars, SUVs, buses, trucks, pickups and defence vehicles.

Founded in 1945 as a manufacturer of locomotives, Tata Motors, formerly known as Tata Engineering and Locomotive Company (TELCO), manufactured its first commercial vehicle in 1954 in a collaboration with Daimler-Benz AG, which ended in 1969.

Tata Motors entered the passenger vehicle market in 1988 with the launch of the TataMobile. This was followed by the Tata Sierra in 1991, becoming the first Indian manufacturer to achieve the capability of developing a competitive indigenous automobile.

In 1998, Tata launched the first fully indigenous Indian passenger car, the Indica, and in 2008 launched the Tata Nano, the world’s most affordable car.

Tata Motors acquired the South Korean truck manufacturer Daewoo Commercial Vehicles Company in 2004 and purchased British auto manufacturer, the Jaguar Land Rover, from Ford in 2008.

Tata Motors’ principal subsidiaries include English premium car maker Jaguar Land Rover (the maker of Jaguar and Land Rover cars) and the South Korean commercial vehicle manufacturer Tata Daewoo.

Tata Motors has a construction-equipment manufacturing joint venture with Hitachi (Tata Hitachi Construction Machinery), and a joint venture with Fiat Chrysler which manufactures automotive components and Fiat Chrysler and Tata branded vehicles.

On Oct 12, 2021 private equity firm TPG invested $1 billion in Tata Motors’ electric vehicle subsidiary.